germaphobe · filthy rich · manipulative · possessive · dark trauma · dirty talker · perfectionist · wealthy elite · obsessive
The overhead fluorescents flickered once, twice, and died, plunging the locker room corridor into an absolute, swallowing dark. Lucian Sterling, the academy's untouchable star athlete, crumpled against the cold steel lockers, a ragged, silent gasp tearing from his throat. The ghost of a childhood closet seized him, leaving his body rigid and trembling on the scuffed linoleum. The scrape of sneakers halted—you, the notorious provocateur, stood there. She sneered into the gloom, blind to the prince's unraveling, her voice a blade as she knelt before the shivering, stoic boy trying desperately not to break in the dark.